Evidence for Roads - Signing and Marking

Conflicts of interest: Driving experience, and time-sharing during in-car tasks on roads of different width

Objectives: To present the findings of a simulator study quantifying the effects of billboards on driver attention, mental workload and performance in urban, motorway and rural environments.

Author(s): A.S. Wikman, T. Nieminen, and H. Summala

Published: 1998
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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Visual search for traffic signs: The effects of clutter, luminance and aging

Objectives: To determine if observers could reliably estimate visual clutter in driving scenes and if these estimates of clutter would predict the efficiency of visual search for traffic signs by younger and older drivers.

Author(s): G. Ho, C.T. Scialfa, J.K. Caird and T. Graw

Published: University of Calgary, Human Factors, Volume 43, No.2, 2001
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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External-To-Vehicle Driver Distraction (Research Findings No. 168/2003)

Objectives: To explore in depth whether external driver distraction is a significant factor in road RTIs and to examine existing knowledge and gaps on the relevant external factors that cause vehicle RTIs.

Author(s): B. Wallace

Published: Human factors Analysts Ltd, for the Scottish Executive, 2003
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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Effects of Roadside Advertisements on Road Safety (Internal Reports 25/2004)

Objectives: To provide background material for different levels of policies, instructions and decisions concerning advertisements.

Author(s): Finnish Road Administration

Published: Finnish Road Administration, 2004
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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Report on Passive Speed Control Devices - Task 20: Speed and Traffic Operations Evaluation

Objectives: This document highlights various passive speed control measures used in the U.S. and around the world. Divided into two sections, the report includes research on longitudinal and transverse pavement markings.

Author(s): MassSAFE, University of Massachusetts

Published: MassSAFE, University of Massachusetts prepared for Governor’s Highway Safety Bureau, 2004
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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Driven to Distraction: An overview of the 100-car naturalistic driving study and findings

Objectives: Findings from an experiment designed to assess the effects of roadside advertising on driver attention and performance in different road types.

Author(s): V. L. Neale, T.A. Dingus, S. G. Klauer, J. Sudweeks and M. Goodman

Published: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2005
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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Traffic calming techniques: Experience and practical advice with 80 case studies

Objectives: To provide an update ten years after the publication of the County Surveyors’ Society’s publication entitled Traffic Calming in Practice.

Author(s): The Institution of Highways and Transportation and the County Surveyors’ Society

Published: The Institution of Highways and Transportation and the County Surveyors’ Society, 2005
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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Do traffic signals at roundabouts save lives?

Objectives: A study to measure the effect of traffic signals at roundabouts on safety.

Author(s): Transport for London

Published: Transport for London, 2005
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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Attraction and distraction of attention with roadside advertisements

Objectives: To investigate the effect of the positioning of roadside advertisements on attracting the attention of passing drivers and therefore having the potential to contribute to RTI causation.

Author(s): D. Crundall, E. Van Loon, G. Underwood

Published: Accident Analysis and Prevention, Volume 38, 2006
Date Added: 07 Feb 2013
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A Review of Simplified Streetscape Schemes (Report Ref PPR292)

Objectives: To undertake a review of simplified streetscape scenes and their underlying design philosophy, and to consider the applicability of their use in London.